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France pick A70b: 50 Soles from 1793
23.5.1793. Allegorical women at lower left and right. Watermark. RF/50s.
Collectors Comment: rooster
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France pick 78c: 100 Francs from 1933
12.1.1933-30.6.1937. Multicolor. Woman with child at left and right.Recess in the frame for serial number expanded from 20 to 23 mm. Signature title: LE CAISSIER PRINCIPAL.
Collectors Comment: date: 30/03/1933; obv.: sheep
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France pick 84a: 10 Francs from 1939
2.2.1939-5.3.1942. Blue. Minerva at upper left. Back: Sitting farm woman. With signature title: LE CAISSIER GÉNÉRAL.
Collectors Comment: dated 12.12.1940 rev.: birds
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France pick 85b: 50 Francs from 1937
4.11.1937-18.4.1940. Ceres and Park of Versailes at left, reclining figure at right. Back: Mercury at right with caduceus. With signature title: LE CAISSIER GÉNÉRAL.
Collectors Comment: rev.: snakes
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France pick 88c: 500 Francs from 1938
24.3.1938-18.1.1940. Blue on pink underprint. Woman at left, Mercury at right. Back: Ornate oval border with cherubs, animals and three figures at bottom. With signature title: LE CAISSIER GÉNÉRAL.
Collectors Comment: obv.: bull, owl, horse, eagle; rev.: snakes
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France pick 90c: 1000 Francs from 1938
24.3.1938-25.7.1940. Ochre, blue and multicolor. Ceres at left, Mercury at right, two small angels below. Back: Four different craftsmen. With signature title: LE CAISSIER GÉNÉRAL. Thin or thicker paper.
Collectors Comment: obv.: rooster
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France pick 93: 50 Francs from 1940
13.6.1940-15.5.1942. Brown, green and multicolor. Jacques Coeur at left. Back: Scene in Bourges, woman at right.
Collectors Comment: date: 15/05/1942 rev.: sheep, cows
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France pick 94: 100 Francs from 1939
19.5.1939-23.4.1942. Brown and multicolor. Woman and child with background of Paris. Back: Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de Sully, looking over field scene with farm, castle, rivers.
Collectors Comment: dated: 14.09.1939 rev.: sheep
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France pick 96a: 1000 Francs from 1940
24.10.1940-19.12.1940. Multicolor. Woman at left and right. Back: Blacksmith and Mercury.
Collectors Comment: obv.: rooster, butterflies d: 19.12.1940
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France pick 97c: 5000 Francs from 1941
10.4.1941-10.12.1942. Woman with Victory statuette and olive branch at center.
Collectors Comment: rev.: snakes
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France pick 99e: 10 Francs from 1942
26.11.1942; 25.3.1943; 13.1.1944; 22.6.1944-9.1.1947. Brown and multicolor. Miners at left, another at right. Back: Cows at left, farm woman and child at right.
Collectors Comment: rev.: cows
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France pick 100a: 20 Francs from 1942
12.2.1942-17.5.1944. Red and multicolor. Breton fisherman at right. Back: Two women at left center, Breton calvary statuary at right.
Collectors Comment: date: 05/11/1942; obv.: fish
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France pick 101a: 100 Francs from 1942
15.5.1942 - 14.12.1944. Multicolor. Descartes at right. Allegorical female reclining at left. Back: Angel.
Collectors Comment: date: 15/5/1942; rev.: horses
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France pick 102: 1000 Francs from 1942
28.5.1942-6.4.1944. Brown and multicolor. Ceres seated with Hermes at right. Back: Mercury.
Collectors Comment: obv.: goats; rev.: goat, lion, bull, wild boar (upper from left to right)
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France pick 127a: 50 Francs from 1946
14.3.1946-3.10.1946. Red, blue and multicolor. Leverrier at right. Back: Neptune and date 1846.
Collectors Comment: rev.: capricorn
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France pick 128c: 100 Francs from 1950
29.6.1950-16.11.1950. Brown, red and multicolor. Farmer with two oxen. Back: Man, woman and children at dockside. Watermark: Woman with hair parted on her left.
Collectors Comment: obv.: oxen
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France pick 130b: 1000 Francs from 1948
11.3.1948-20.4.1950. Blue and multicolor. Minerva and Hercules at center. Back: Woman at center.
Collectors Comment: dated: 05/05/1948 obv.: doves
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France pick 131a: 5000 Francs from 1949
10.3.1949-3.11.1949. Multicolor. Two allegorical figures (Sea and Countryside) at center. Back: Mercury and allegorical woman.
Collectors Comment: date: 10.3.1949 obv.: bull on vase
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France pick 143a: 50 Nouveaux Francs from 1959
5.3.1959-6.7.1961. Multicolor. Henry IV at center, Paris' Pont Neuf bridge in background, denomination: NOUVEAUX FRANCS (NF). Back: Henry IV at center, Château de Pau at left.
Collectors Comment: ovb.& rev.: bulls
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France pick 144a: 100 Nouveaux Francs from 1959
5.3.1959-2.4.1964. Multicolor. Arc de Triomphe at left, Napoléon Bonaparte at right, denomination: NOUVEAUX FRANCS (NF). Back: Paris' Church of the Invalides at right, Bonaparte at left.
Collectors Comment: rev.: swans
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France pick 146b: 5 Francs from 1967
5.5.1967-8.1.1970. Brown, purple, and multicolored. Louis Pasteur at left, Pasteur Institute in Paris at right. Laboratory implements, man fighting a rabid dog, Pasteur at right on back.
Collectors Comment: date: 01/08/1968 rev.: sheep, hens, rooster, rabbits, dog
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France pick 157Ad: 50 Francs from 1997
1997; 1998. Purple and dark blue on blue, green, and multicolored underprint. Drawing of le Petit Prince at left. Old airplane at top left, topographical map of Africa at center, Antoine de Saint-Exupery at right and as watermark. Breguet XIV biplane on back. Name as Exupery, not Exupery ol; new law clause on back.
Collectors Comment: obv.: elephant; 1999 year of issue
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